Job Title: Accounts Payable Assistant
Location: St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
Salary: £20,000-£23,500 Per annum
Job type: Full Time – Permanent.
Arena provides temporary event services, designing and delivering complete environments for the most prestigious sporting, commercial and cultural occasions in the global calendar. With over 250 years of experience, we have worked in partnership with several iconic events including: The PGA Tour, Wimbledon, ITV, Kensington Palace, Cheltenham Festival and London 2012, to name just a few.
About the role;
We are currently looking for an Accounts Payable Assistant to join our growing team, if you feel like this could be you apply below.
Working in a small and friendly team and assisting with Accounts Payable function for the Arena Group of companies but also assisting with other areas of finance on an ad hoc basis.
Main Responsibilities and Duties:
- Checking, entering and matching invoices to purchase orders
- Seeking authorisation from relevant managers
- Credit Card Reconciliations
- Staff expenses
- Handling supplier queries in a timely and polite manner, escalating any queries to your manager as appropriate
- Working to deadlines and ensuring payments are made in a timely and responsible manner
- Month end close procedures
- Supplier statement reconciliations
- Undertaking additional duties as may be assigned from time to time
- Any other Finance duties to help the team as assigned by the AP Supervisor
Person specification;
- A background in purchase ledger is an advantage but system speed and accuracy are more important as on job training will be provided.
- Quick learner
- High levels of accuracy
- Friendly, resilient and confident personality with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly organised, professional and accountable for your own work
- Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Experience working with Navision desirable
- Good understanding of Excel
Career Progression:
On successful completion of a 6-month probationary period progression is achieved based on a performance and qualification assessment.
If you see yourself as a dynamic and reliable individual, with a positive attitude, we would like to hear from you.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Graduate, Finance Graduate, Accounts Graduate, Junior Bookkeeper, Accountancy Trainee, Accounts Assistance, Accounts Team Assistant, Accounts Clerk, Accounts Junior, Finance Admin, Payroll Administrator, CIS Accountant, Construction Industry, Construction Industry Scheme, Accountant, Practice Accountant, Assistant Accountant, Trainee Accountant, ACA, ACCA, AA will also be considered for this role.
